Kavieng District Development Authority

This was the statement issued by the Kavieng District Development Authority at the grand launching of several banana boats and 40 HP engines at Bagail beachfront in Kavieng town last Thursday.

Shadow Treasurer and Member for Kavieng, Ian Ling-Stuckey, said water transport received only K13 million in 2017, only 2 percent of all transport sector spending, while road transport received 81 percent and air transport 17 percent of transport funding.

Member for Kavieng and district development authority chairman, Ian Ling-Stuckey, said the Department of Implementation and Rural Development had confirmed at a recent meeting that the former Kavieng MP had received K40 million in District Services Improvement Program funds and K1.0 in District Support Grants between 2012 and 2017.

“We have established that at least K45.01 million has been received in the past 5 years but we still do not know where it was spent or where it was kept,” says Ling-Stuckey.